In accepting an award for her gay
rights advocacy, actress Fran Drescher thanked her “gay
ex-husband.”

Drescher and ex-husband Peter Marc
Jacobson created and produced the long-running CBS sitcom The
Nanny, which starred Drescher as Fran Fine, a Jewish working
class woman from Queens who creates chaos when she lands a job
looking after the children of an upper class Broadway producer in New
York.

The couple reunited to produce TV
Land's comedy Happily Divorced, which was loosely based on
Drescher's life following her divorce from Jacobson in 1999 after 21
years of marriage.

“I have a gay art dealer, a gay
dermatologist – not to mention my hairdresser. I have a gay
ex-husband!” she said Tuesday at the Stonewall Community Foundation
Vision Awards.

“People always say to me, 'How did
you not know?' He loves decorating and fashion and clothes, but we
actually did have sex a lot. I didn't know at the time, though, that
in his mind he was fucking the bartender at Oliver Garden,”
Drescher
added.